VIDEO: Peter, Paul and Mary’s “Light One Candle” — in Yiddish
Three siblings of the musically renowned Mlotek family recently recorded a new translation of the Hanukkah song
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New record label boasts young (and female) singers of cantorial music
The producers of ‘Khazones Underground’ hope this Ashkenazi musical genre can be revived, just as klezmer was
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From Buenos Aires to Warsaw, ‘The Bride’ comes home
The painting by Maurycy Minkowski (circa 1920) was almost lost during the 1994 bombing of the AMIA in Buenos Aires
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Yiddishkayt LA and New Lehrhaus merge — but is it good for Yiddish?
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Musician-ethnographer Michael Alpert to receive Dreaming in Yiddish Award
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Rabbi Mayer Moskowitz z”l, on Hasidic life in pre-war Czernowitz
The beloved rabbi and educator described in detail the Orthodox Jewish community of this once vibrant city
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From shtetl to synth: How Yiddish electronica found its rhythm
Josh ‘Socalled’ Dolgin and Chaia both aim to keep Yiddish vibrant without turning it into a museum piece
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A Yiddish circus in a suitcase
German audiences are enthusiastic about the show “Tshemodan,” where circus artists perform to a live klezmer band
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A German museum aimed to honor Jewish wit. The result is downright demeaning.
The Haus der Kunst in Munich now has Yiddish insults mounted on its cornice
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Maria Ka’s cosmic Yiddish music — from punk grit to starlight
Performing out of Gdańsk, Poland, the singer-songwriter fuses everyday Yiddish speech with celestial wonder
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Detective Max Spitzkopf, now in English translation, gave Jews of the 20th century an avenger of their own
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